But... But... But...
Climate "Experts" and Biased Media said it would be an Ice-Free Arctic in 2016.
Climate "Experts" and Biased Media said it would be an Ice-Free Arctic in 2016.
Missed zero by over 4 Million.
And just for comparison, the size of Texas is 700,000 Km² (0.7 million)
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9/17/2012 - Arctic Will Be Completely Ice Free by 2016
===========And just for comparison, the size of Texas is 700,000 Km² (0.7 million)
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9/17/2012 - Arctic Will Be Completely Ice Free by 2016
Arctic waters will be completely ice free within four years, according to leading Arctic ice expert Professor Peter Wadhams of Cambridge University.
This “final collapse” of Arctic sea ice in summer months could occur by 2015, solidifying a “global disaster,” which has arrived faster than previous predictions suggested.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012/09/17/arctic-sea-ice-will-reach-final-collapse-within-four-years-expert
This “final collapse” of Arctic sea ice in summer months could occur by 2015, solidifying a “global disaster,” which has arrived faster than previous predictions suggested.
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2012/09/17/arctic-sea-ice-will-reach-final-collapse-within-four-years-expert
Arctic sea ice melt has turned the corner
September 14, 2016
I almost called this yesterday, but I needed more data to be sure.
All of the data I’ve looked at agrees,
This graph from Wipneus shows the abruptness of the change:
Here, the Arctic temperature shows a dramatic upswing.
when water freezes it releases its specific latent heat.
Added: Note that in the record low year 2012, the date of the turning point was September 16th, this year was just a little bit earlier, but didn’t come close to a record, nor did it come close to predictions made for an ice free Arctic or less than 1 million square kilometers.
The value this year looks to be about 4.139 million square kilometers according to NSIDC data on September 11th of 2016.
September 14, 2016
I almost called this yesterday, but I needed more data to be sure.
All of the data I’ve looked at agrees,
Arctic sea ice is now on the upswing, and in a big way.
Here is the plot from NSIDC:
This graph from Wipneus shows the abruptness of the change:
Here, the Arctic temperature shows a dramatic upswing.
when water freezes it releases its specific latent heat.
The specific latent heat is the amount of energy required to convert 1 kg (or 1 lb) of a substance from solid to liquid (or vice-versa) without a change in the temperature of the surroundings — all absorbed energy goes into the phase change — is known as the specific latent heat of fusion.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat#Specific_latent_heat
For water, that’s about 334 KiloJoules of energy per kilogram.Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_heat#Specific_latent_heat
Added: Note that in the record low year 2012, the date of the turning point was September 16th, this year was just a little bit earlier, but didn’t come close to a record, nor did it come close to predictions made for an ice free Arctic or less than 1 million square kilometers.
The value this year looks to be about 4.139 million square kilometers according to NSIDC data on September 11th of 2016.
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